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Hominins Were Present in Eurasia by At Least 1.95 Million Years Ago
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Earth’s Recent Mini-Moon Has Lunar Origin, New Study Suggests
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Thousands of Mounds in Martian Mawrth Vallis Region Were Once Soaked with Water, Scientists Say
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Snow Leopards Dispersed Out of Tibetan Plateau Multiple Times, Researchers Say
The snow leopard (Panthera uncia) is a large feline unique to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and its surrounding areas. How this...
Astronomers Discover Most Distant Known Blazar
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Hubble Space Telescope Observes Various Galaxies in Hydra
This new image from the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a tiny patch...
DECam Zooms in on Antlia Galaxy Cluster
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